Associated risks for long term pneumonia complications
Clinically diagnosed and radiographically confirmed pneumonia during the first 3 years of life is a known risk factor. Compared to those without pneumonia, young adults had a two-fold increased risk of active physician-diagnosed asthma.6
Also infants with poor respiratory function at birth are at risk of developing both pneumonia and later long term respiratory problems. Children with immunodeficiency or cystic fibrosis are at risk of recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis and restrictive lung disease. Furthermore socioeconomic factors with children from marginalised and indigenous populations having more recurrent pneumonia and frequent hospital admissions. Certain implicated pathogens are linked with sequela with adenovirus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae leading to bronchiectasis and bronchiolitis obliterans as respiratory sequalae.